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It used to be that a call about a break-in at your place in the middle of the night would have a chopper over your house in minutes. You know a neighborhood is bad when they have painted their street address number on the roof in big white letters like parts of Silverlake and East L.A. Nowadays, a call to LAPD about an armed psycho at your back door might get a response in an hour or so.
Nikon D70 35mm f3.5
Dec 15 2010
Los Angeles, Southern California
In fact, with the weather looking so good, it was the perfect opportunity to fly out! I agreed to continue up the ridge to the hut and organise the chopper while the others stayed down on the glacier. If it were possible and the chopper was available, I would then return and we would cross the glacier and head up to Bevan Col where we would wait to greet the chopper with excited and relieved smiles!
So I left the others and headed up to the hut. I'm not sure if it was from poor hydration or some other unknown reason, but I felt delirious, like I was in some kind of trance. Any idea of fatigue or pain disappeared and I powered up to the hut like never before. It felt great to arrive but first it was time for a pitstop. I used this time to regain my thoughts and ready myself for the next stage.
Relieved I returned to the hut and went to fill my water bottles for much needed hydration. The tap was frozen shut! No water for me. Hopefully the guys were melting some down on the glacier. Opening the door to the hut, I couldn't believe my eyes. It was Roy, our guide from two years earlier. Of all the places here he was. After quickly outlining our story to some interested climbers in the hut I proceeded to call over the radio for a chopper. Finally it was confirmed! Weather permitting they were good to go!
Estimating the time to walk to the Col I asked for them to pick us up at 3:15pm. Roy was going to watch from Colin Todd Hut and if it was good weather and we got to Bevan Col early he would call the chopper company on his satphone to let them know we were ready to go. The sky was clear and the wind was light. Perfect! I almost ran down to the glacier I was so excited...
Olympus Trip 35 with D Zuiko f2.8/40mm. Kosmo Foto Mono in Xtol 1+1 for 8min. 20C
I had one very similar to this one when I was 9 or 10. Not a Raleigh but a Monark, a Brazilian brand very popular at the time.
I recently brought my IRL Gazelle to where I am currently living and it... well.. it broke :/
Anyway, instead of simply rebuilding it, I decided it was shit and started again with version three. Here it is then, the third reproduction of this bird in LDD at 1/31 scale. This one features a number of improvements on its predecessor, those being: a fully transparent canopy rather than an opaque cockpit with clear plates attached; a more appropriately sized fuselage which sits lower to the ground; an improved engine block.
There are lots of other parts to this which I prefer as well, but those are the main points.
Instructions for sale at £6.00 or foreign equivalent.
Just got me a chopper and I'm feeling pumped!
Another Iron Forge entry. I've used the seed part 2 times, not counting the biker minifig.
I don't usually go for the agents theme, but I thought they did an extraordinarily great job on it. The gunship has many play features, two cockpits, wings that fold out toward with the push of a sliding mechanism built into the tail, a wench to lower a person out the bottom of the craft, and my personal favorite, anti rotating chopper blades! Yeah, really, the blades rotate in opposite directions! These are controlled by a knob on the bottom of the gunship you can turn. All in all, a very fun, interesting and original set.
BR Class 20 D8154 leads a short train of Mk 3 coaches towards Ruddington on the Great Central Railway (Nottingham) with Class 31 D5830 bringing up the rear.
When I went to Bricks by the Bay, I had meant to bring two MOCs. This is the one I forgot at home. D'oh. I've long thought that the torso of the Ooni Beast from the notorious Galidor line looked like the gas tank of a custom chopper, so I was inspired to build this. All 100% LEGO, though there are some dodgy techniques being employed. For example, there are no dark red 1x2 click hinges with the hinge in the middle. I used a red one and camouflaged it with a bit of dark red sticker on the seat. Also, the 2 cheese slopes making the point of the seat are held on with dark red sticker bits from official LEGO stickers. And I cut rigid tubing for the brake levers. Clearly I'm not a purist.